Latex is the Textprocessing of the Engeneering/Scientific world. Lyx is a powerful Latex document editor. I found forum member didiks small "texlive_2009" package very usefull. (puppy size 170 MB, hum, I know what you wanna say, but well thats really small/minimum for a Latex/Tex package).

The default fontsize in the Lyx Gui was too small for me. I spent a long time in the various menus and tried to find a possibility to use bigger fonts for that.
This search was completely unsuccessful!

After some googling I found that this is adjusted over the command

Code:

qtconfig

in a Terminal. It brings up a nice gui where you can configure the appearance of Qt applications. Oh - and this means with the Latex/Lyx Package you also have Qt 4.4.2 installed (but I guess not the dev package).

unfortunatly I have no experience with other main character sets than the latin one. Maybe you ask for support on the lyx support forum (try to prepare a Minimum working example of your problem and also post input and output files and error messages).

A brief googling showed my that there are also many institutions in the Arabic/Asian world use Latex and also Lyx, maybe someone there can give help in setting up your system.

If you are successfull it would be very nice if you could post a brief howto .
Emil

emil, i downloaded the latex full.sfs and inside that there are pinstal.sh and two folder. what should i do to run latex?
i'm sorry, i very new about latex.
is there possible to add latex.desktop on /usr/share/application so latex appear on start menu?
when i run

I don't have those latex packages ( and all of my other development files) at my current computer, so I downloaded the "MIN" package and checked if "latex" works there - it did. I cannot download the full package because the pac kage will exhaust my bandwith.

Latex is installed at the default location and there need some environmental variables to be set for the correct paths. Normally there is a script contained in the sfs in the /etc/profile.d folder - this is called each startup.

I added a pinstall.sh, because of shinobars sfs load on th fly, so those variables are also set when the sfs is loaded "on the fly". Disclaimer:
I only checked the packages with lupu 511 and slacko, so there might be problems with other puppies, but I hope not. Please let me know if it works....
kind regards
emil

@ emil,
Thanks for the good job, I'm using your "texlive-2011-FULLAPP.sfs" for a while, now on saluki but previously also on sagelive.
Have you any plan to update your packages to texlive 2012 officially published lately? what about sagelive or sage package?
thanks

Hi owari,
I am happy you like it. I have no definitive plans for updating atm, because I have to run my business and follow some non-computer related projects. Beside that I need time for kids and family. But maybe there is a window in fall where I can make an update for texlive.

Regarding the sage package: this is easily compiled by any puppy version out there - turning it into an sfs is also easy, because it is self contained and resides in its own subdirectory so maybe somebody else can have a try to create that package.
Regarding sagelive I am a bit undecided on the base I should build it (32 bit vs 64 bit, Saluki, or Wary, or maybe just stick with the old adapted lupu 511 quickset version. I was also drawn to using the minimal debian live approach from sickgut with the jwm window manager because of the apt-get advantage.

Thanks,
Although by myself use Saluki but I'm also waiting for JBV and saintless's FoxyRoxy based on sickgut's pussy and of course your sagelive, as I am now trying to solve my equations using sage! lupu is a bit old, both in kernel and in apps and although it is based on ubuntu but not all the ubuntu packages in ubuntu repos are installable on it (dependency problems), Saluki is not based on debian or ubuntu but I have installed a deb package on it that was not installable even on Debian itself (due to newer required dependencies not met with even wheezy!)!!! Anyway, Saluki is my suggestion but the choice is yours!
Godspeed

I just wanted to write a big, "Thank you!" to all the people who posted in this thread. You all very much helped me do what I wanted to do with LaTex, TexLive, and Lyx (as well as read the Qt writing on my screen).

There is an installer which can be used to download a custom package. It is fine for full install puppies, but for frugal installs it is not straightforward how to avoid full savefiles/disks and to build a custom sfs package (it's not too difficult either).
install-tl-unx.tar.gz

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